Draft Agenda for Council meeting Wednesday 16 November 2005 Coordinated Universal Time UTC 19:00 (11:00 LA, 14:00 Washington, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 Brussels, 8:00 Wellington next day 17 November) Item 1: Approval of minutes - Council teleconference - 13 October 2005 - Council teleconference - 20 October 2005 Item 2: Staff action items - list of current GNSO work items - update from Glen on Vancouver meeting schedule Item 3: Election of GNSO Council chair - Bruce Tonkin has been nominated and seconded - term from 18 Nov 2005 until one month after 2005 AGM (4 Jan 2006) Item 4: Evaluation of new gtlds (.biz, .info etc as well as .travel, .jobs. .mobi etc) - update on questions to structure the evaluation Item 5: Policy Development Process for new gtlds - discuss issues report - decide whether to commence a PDP Item 6: Policy development for IDNs - discuss background document - decide whether to formally request an issues report Item 7: WHOIS: Final Recommendation regarding handling conflicts between a registrar/registry's legal obligations under privacy laws and their contractual obligations to ICANN - vote on final recommendation as completed by the WHOIS task force on 19 Oct Item 8: WHOIS task force - progress on purpose and definitions of contacts Item 9: Update on GNSO strategic plan Item 10: Update on GNSO operational plan Item 11: Any other business